Sen Warren to US Trade Rep: release the Trans-Pacific Partnership docs – if they piss the people off, then we shouldn't be part of it

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has written an open letter to Michael Froma, the nominee to run the US Trade Representative’s office, calling on him to release the text and negotiating documents for the secretive, controversial Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), whose sweeping and brutal copyright provisions make it clear that this is the next attempt to pass SOPA and ACTA — the US law and international treaty that flamed out in 2012.

“I appreciate the willingness of the USTR to make various documents available for review by members of Congress, but I do not believe that is a substitute for more robust public transparency,” Warren wrote to Froman, who is now an assistant to the president. “If transparency would lead to widespread public opposition to a trade agreement, then that trade agreement should not be the policy of the United States.”